Paul Giamatti has been tapped to play paranormal radio host Art Bell in a brand new biopic film from Radio Silence.
Giamatti not too long ago starred in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, which earned him a nomination for the Finest Actor Academy Award. He’ll additionally quickly reprise his Harold Levinson in Focus Options’ Downton Abbey 3, which is scheduled to hit United States theaters this September.
Per Deadline, Giamatti has now been forged as Artwork Bell in a brand new movie from Radio Silence. Amazon, Warner Bros. Photos, and others are at the moment placing in bids for the undertaking.
What’s the new Paul Giamatti film about?
“The pitch is a biopic concerning the late paranormal DJ Artwork Bell, who would broadcast his radio present from his residence studio 65 miles west of Las Vegas, fielding unscreened phone calls in a five-hour present on KNYE-FM known as Coast to Coast,” Deadline’s article reads. “Company would provide up eyewitness tales on Bell’s present about alien counters, previous lives, time journey and extra X-File-like conditions. His 2018 New York Occasions obit famous that Bell claimed he and his spouse noticed a ‘150-foot-long triangular craft’ above their automobile one evening earlier than it disappeared.”
The script comes from Sam Chalsen and Nelson Greaves. Sophie Cassidy and Jeff Katz will function producers.
Radio Silence is comprised of administrators Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. They’ve made segments within the horror anthology motion pictures V/H/S and Southbound, whereas they’ve additionally helmed the characteristic movies 2014’s Satan’s Due, 2019’s Prepared or Not, 2022’s Scream, 2023’s Scream VI, and, most not too long ago, 2024’s Abigail. They’re additionally engaged on a sequel to Prepared or Not, which is able to see Samara Weaving reprise her position as Grace.
Giamatti notably co-hosts a podcast, Chinawag, with Stephen Asma that dives “deep (like, actually, actually deep) into the wilderness of the thoughts.”
